Math Training Follow-up



7:30-7:45 Questions for teachers to answer before they come to the workshop:
  • What were my short-term literacy goals as a result of the initial workshop?
  • What were my long-term literacy goals as a result of the initial workshop?
  • Where do I sit on those goals now? Have I implemented them? Have I been unable to implement them yet? Why/why not?
  • What have I learned as a result of my implementation?
  • What are my future goals, that I bring with me to this workshop?

7:45-9:00 Discussion of implementation- Chart paper with catagories: Successes, Barriers, Systemtic Approach
Introduction:

  • Bring examples/pictures
  • Discuss attempts/success/failures
  • Discuss/Brainstorm goals for the day (just like last time, but I want You to be more forceful here, now that you've already had some time)

10, 8, 8 minutes for each rotation with 8 minutes for synthesis
Next steps for successes
  • What strategies were successful for me?
  • What was successful about those strategies?
  • How were my students able to access the information differently than they would have without the literacy component? How did that impact what I understand about how to help them experience the material? (This is a really big question that I think most teachers don't think about enough, I really want to hear from others about what this means to them because I'm not sure my description is as clear on 'paper' as it is in my head.)
  • How do I build off of those successful attempts/strategies?
  • What part of literacy do I now need to think about improving in my instruction?
  • How to build toward "my goals"?

Barriers to success in attempts that didn’t achieve my goals
  • What caused the strategies to be less than successful?
  • What did I learn as a result of the attempt?
  • If I were to do the strategy, again, what would I do differently?
  • How do I plan to achieve my goals, now?

Systemically, what do we do as a department to make our students better communicators of mathematics?
  • What literacy patterns do we see developing that we can build off of? Act on?
  • How can we test the effectiveness of the strategies?
  • What type of writing are students doing?
  • How do we support their success here?

Synthesis of discussion

9:00-9:10 Break

9:10-10:20
New learning to explore:
Example of integrating literacy in a polynomial equation learning experience.
Work through the scenario, with a focus on how to develop student input, student understanding, student communication.